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Hare Krishna...Hare Rama...
Hare Krsna Gurudeva
por favor acepte mis humildes obediencias
todas las Glorias para Srila Prabhupada
un año más sobreviviendo en conciencia de Krishna
solo por su misericordia e ilimitada paciencia
Siguiendo los cuatro principios y cantando las 16 rondas como buenamente puedo . Pero el burro es puesto al límite cada día
espero que un día pueda sentirse orgulloso de mi
su discípulo
Murari das
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Dear Esteemed Guru Maharaj,
Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and your glorious service unto him.
Dear Esteemed Guru Maharaj, this year 2021 brought about big changes for me, the birth of my two children. I have also realized the sacrifices in raising children crying in the middle of the night and upsetting my schedule. I am indebted to my mother and father for helping me when we needed them after the pregnancy, for supporting me, and for improving my spiritual life under your guidance.
Esteemed Maharaj, from my small realizations I obtained in my spiritual and material life, I have now learned the importance of hearing the words of the guru carefully and following the words of the guru carefully, including the siksha gurus and vartmapradarsaka gurus, my parents. I have begun to realize more deeply how their guidance and your guidance was always for helping me and supporting me to maintain my spiritual life.
I have also made a change on this auspicious occasion of your Vyasa Puja, holy appearance day. I was chanting my rounds in the daytime but now I have started chanting my rounds before mangal aarti around 3:30 am in the morning. Sometimes some deadline comes around and messes up my schedule but I have learned that I need to get up and try again. I need to keep trying to further improve my sadhana. I hope to keep improving myself and to try to keep improving my sadhana in following your instructions.
On a separate note, I am most appreciative and grateful for your guiding me towards the Bhaktivedanta Institute, a way for me to utilize my Ph.D. and academic position in service to Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON mission. I was fortunate to humbly serve in the Bhaktivedanta Institute this year 2021 in two ways: 1) as a Guest Speaker in the panel session “Celebrating Life and Works of Dr. T. D. Singh - Pioneer of Science-Spirituality Dialogue” symposium on 9th December 2021 on the occasion of the 84th Birth Anniversary of Founding Director Dr. T. D. Singh (Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami Maharaja). 2) as a chair of the Music, Attention, Meditation session of the Neuro Conference at the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies. We are trying to work with the BI scientists Drutakarma Prabhu, Brahmatirtha Prabhu, and Akhandadhi Prabhu to build a scientific model of the subtle body and use that to explain anomalous phenomena in modern science. There is now a growing interest in consciousness by neurologists and neuroscientists. What I heard from your lectures since childhood has inspired me to delve into this field of presenting Vedic and Bhagavata models in scientific jargon.
You are my source of inspiration and my ideal Guru Maharaj in scientific preaching. Your books, articles, your work, NIOS, your mission in scientific preaching is so great and glorious! Your eloquence and elocution of clearly explaining Vedic and Bhagavata philosophy in modern scientific terminology and your easily answering my questions about Vedic and Bhagavata philosophy is what pulled me from my childhood towards the scientific exploration of Vedic and Bhagavata philosophy. I hope to keep learning from your Holiness and to offer my little service in this scientific preaching mission of Srila Prabhupada.
Your humble aspiring servant,
Aja Govinda dasa
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My friend Basu Ghosh Prabhu and his wife Ananti Devi Dasi were staying with their son Vamana at Frisco in the vicinity of Radha Kalachandji Dhama Texas 🐄 They live in an overpriced gated community where solicitation is strictly prohibited and has the security of a chinese gulag. 🧱
We were taking prasadam together and I noticed out the window that a lot of Indian people were about. I suggested we do some door dee door sankirtan. Vamana was afraid that we would be popped and it would come back to him as a tenant.
I assured him that security would not make a big deal of us as long as we didn't disturb people too much. Then I went to Kalachandji's and asked Yoga Maya Devi Dasi who runs the BBT book room to sell me something from each Indian language that she had.
She came up with hardback Bhagavad Gitas and Krishna books in Hindi. Telagu, Gujarati, and Tamil. 📚 We started out with the books and met Michael from Greece who was in his car coming from somewhere. Michael had heard of the Beatles and I told him about our temple in Athens. He paid $10 on my square swiper thing and chanted the Hare Krishna maha mantra splendidly.
In another car was Hayden and his wife. They were all American and liked the pictures in the Easy Journey to Other Planets, gave a donation and recited the Hare Krishna maha very well together.
So two people have bought Srila Prabhupada's books from us and we had not even knocked on a door. When we did knock Jim opened and immediately bought a big Bhagavad Gita.
The next door was a lady from Harayana province who wanted something to read for her two daughters and bought the Hindi Krishna book. Having spent years as the president of ISKCON Baroda, Basu Ghos is fluent in Hindi and knows a lot of other Indian languages. This helped distribute the books.
A family from Hyderabad invited us into their home although we came in the middle of their lunch. I complimented the man's bright blue dhoti and they took the Telugu Bhagavad Gita and placed the book on their altar. They look forward to visiting Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji's mandir.
The next two Puerto were a man from Argentina and another from Mexico. I speak okay Mexican and they both got Karma la Justicia Infalible, then chanted Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.
Ananti Devi Dasi said that she knew some Gujarati friends in building 3 As we were heading there, the security guard Captain Katherine drives up in a golf cart and asked if we were soliciting.🐕 Wearing saris, dhoti and tilak we were not hard to spot. I was able to honestly say that were just going to a friend's.
The gujaratis were not home. Meanwhile tattooed Paul was on his back porch and took an Easy Journey to Other Planets, attracted to the art work.
By now security had us figured out and were hot on the trail, like back in the day. 👮♀️
I knocked on another door and a man from Chicago took the book inside with a thank you and shut the door before I could say anything. 🤷♂️The book was distributed and inside. I remembered how Srikara Prabhu became a devotee after stealing a Bhagavad Gita from a sankirtan devotee. Some devotees never ask for laxmi when distributing books.
The next door a tall african man who had heard of Stevie Wonder and liked the idea of an antimatter spirit soul said "wait " and took the Easy Journey to Other Planets inside. 🗿He came back and gave us $40, paying for his and the snatched one. 💰
Knowing that it's best to quit while ahead, we were heading back to Vamana's but couldn't resist two Indian men who were outside moving stuff into a truck. 🚛 One was named Balaji and they were from Tirupati. Balaji told us about his many visits to the Balaji temple, his namesake. He took the Tamil Krishna Book and chanted Hare Krishna maha mantra like they had done so for years. ☸
Captain Katherine came right up, a little perturbed that we had gotten past her. She escorted us to Vamana's like a presidential motorcade. We had gone through the entire place already. 🤠
Mishra Bhagavan Dasa
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Querido Guru Maharaja:
En este día auspicioso de su Aparición Trascendental en este mundo, permítame ofrecerle estas palabras.
om ajñana-timirandhasya
jñanañjana-salakaya
cakshur unmilitam yena
tasmai sri-gurave namah
nama om visnu-padaya
krishna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate hanumatpresaka
-svamin iti namine
Por la misericordia de
Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu
un cojo puede cruzar montañas y
un mudo recitar las Escrituras védicas.
Gurudeva, yo seguiré sus huellas
no hay un océano tan profundo
ni montaña tan alta que pueda alejarme
yo seguiré su ejemplo donde sea que vaya.
Desde que tocó mi corazón supe
que cerca de sus pies siempre debo estar
y nada puede tenerlo lejos de mi
su sendero es mi destino.
Otros ojos ven la Luna arriba en el cielo
para mí, ella brilla en sus ojos
como los árboles alcanzan el Sol por encima
mi vida llega a su persona para servirlo.
Gurudeva, está en cada respiración que tomo
está en cada servicio que hago
con su mano en mi espalda
siento un poder tan trascendental.
Gurudeva, está en mi día y mi noche
está en cada oración que hago
si mi amor dejara de ser
entonces sería el fin de mi mundo.
Por favor perdone mis ofensas y errores.
Su sirviente eterno,
Jiva-Sakti dasa.
Su Santidad Srila Hanumatpresaka Swami Maharaja ki jaya!
Sri Vyasa-puja ki jaya!
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Querido Gurudev, Reverencias TGASP,
Espero haya tenido un bonito festejo de Vyasa Puja,gracias por la vida espiritual que tengo, aprecio su determinación en el servicio de Predica, y lo fuerte que es para mantenerse toda la vida en esa frecuencia, de entrega total a la misión de Sankirtan de Srila Prabhupada. En los próximos años Usted vivirá en Radakund,pienso en el NOI y su significado, siendo el lugar más excelso para la práctica de la devoción y que Usted pueda vivir ahí y ejecutar Su bhajan me pone muy contento por qué Sri Sri Radha y Krishna y el Gurú Param Para se lo concedan,ayudándome a apreciar tambien rasgos de Su devoción, y el aprecio de la divinidad por Usted,gracias por aceptarme como Su discípulo, y ocuparme.
A Su Servicio
Adi Yajña Das
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